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HVB PROVEM ENT 1N HARVESTERS Specification iinming part ot' Letters Patent No. @6,416 9, dated February 2, 1869.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, AMOS RANK and JOSHUA H. COX, both ot' Salem, in the county of Columbian a and State of Ohio, have invented a new and usct'ul Improvement in Harvesters, ot' which the following is ai'ull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a view, in elevation, (partly in section,) ot' so much oit' a harvester embracing our improvement as is necessary to illust ate our invention, Fig. 2, a view of the bracket which sustains the driving-gear.

Letters Patentot the United. States (No. 82,987) were graiited to us October 13, 1868,

for improvements in l1 arvesters. In that patent the reel was driven by a band and sprocketwhccls.

The invention herein claimed constitutes an improvement on that mode of driving a reel-5 and consists in a novel method, hereinafter described, of driving a reel mounted on a iioating nger-beam by gearing on the main axle and reel-shaft connected by an extensible universally-jointed driving-eonnection.

Our invention is to be applied to a fully-organized harvester; but a description of parts other than those forming the subject-matter of the invention claimed herein is deemed imnecessary here.

In the accompanying drawings our improvements are shown as applied to a machine such as shown in our former patent, which is one of the class known as two-wheeled hingedjoint machines.7

A represents a portion of the main frame; B, one of the driving-wheels, and G the grainwheel. l) is the drag-bar, on which the shoe E is pivoted. The reel-post l1 is mounted on -this shoe in such manner as to admit ot' its adjustment backward or forward, as required.

AA reel, G, by preference an overhun g one, is mounted in a bracket or socket which can be adjusted up and down, as described in our former patent. A bevel-wheel, H, on the main axle drives a correspondin pinion, h, on. a short shaii't turning in a collar, i, onabrackct, l. This brackethas an oye, if, on its lower end, which slips over the main axle, and 1s iirmly held in osition by a rigid brace, l.

A'link, J, is connected at one end by a universal joint to the shaft carrying the bevelpinion It, and at the other end by a similar joint to a square sha'tt, K, sliding cndwise through a corresponding opening in. a bevel` pinion, 7i', mounted on a collar turning in a bearing on the reel-bracket, as shown in our former patent. '..ihis pinion 7c drives a corre- 'spending pinion, L, on the rcel-shaitt. Ry this means the reel can be set higher or lower, backward or brward, or allowed to rise and i'all independently of the mainframe.

Combined rakes and reels have heretofore been driven by gearing and extensible shafts, but in a manner different from ours.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the adjustable reel, mounted on a single post over the shoe, of the Heating finger-beam with the drivin ggearin g on the main axle by means of the universal joints, link, and endwise freely-sliding shai't, substai'itially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination, as set forth, of' the bracket on the main axle with the brace-rod and short shaft, for the purpose set :l'orthM In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

AMOS RANK. J. COX. Witnesses:

Trios. S. Brunn, C. W. GADWALLADER. 

